Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-04-22
HERE AND THERE.

places in California.
resident of Altoona, Pa, owns spinning
wheel that is over 100 years old
remarkable fall OF snow covers nearly all
Ensland, blocking the roads in many places.
The university library at Cambridge, En.
gland, Is TO be enlarged at an expense OF $50.
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Six towns ln Windham county. Vermont,
have elected women as superintendents O..
schools
Herr Fable, the wise Austrian, who says he
predicted The recent earthquake, predict.
sr--e scr AAsrn and perhaps few for May.
A Chinaman who recently left San Fran.
cisco, Cal, on steamer for home, took with
him his Peruvian wife.
DR. McCosh hopes to remain at the head Of
the Princeton college until II becomes In nam,
and In fact, full-nedgad university.
In Japan paper is made Of substance
known as s.marinc alge." II Is strong and SO
transparent that It can be used In place OF
glass.
John q. Whittier thinks that II the tagging
fund for the Longfellow memorial IL ever to
be made up II can not be ''done otherwise than
by vigorous personal solicitation
/ In boring well near Pine Grove Esneralds
county, Nevada, steam OF a temperature hoi
enough to cook potatoes was struck ut deptL
of sixty feet below the surface.
Already thirteen postoflces In this country
have been named after Col Lamont, Cleye
lands secretary, while Secretary Garland's
name has been given to only seven.
On one Of the prime ipal streets in Thomas
ton, Ca, a physician and shoemaker occups
the same building. Over the door is caalked
the sign: ave repair both sole and body"
| A New Yorker has invented musical toy
in the shape of a champagne bottle laterally
divided, and on the inside OF the section is
violin and strings, on which music can be
| discoursed.
| James Taylor while digging a well on his
farm near Excelsior, Wis, found in bed OF
| gravel twenty feet below the surface lot OF
beautiful amethysts and one very large and
valuable ruby.
! One Of the largest stock farms In the world
| 10 that owned by the Powell Brothers, near
| springsboro, Pa. 1t covers an area of 2,5oo
| acres. The annual horse sales on the place
| amount to over 100000.
A private telegram from Fort Benton NJ. I
| quotes the following prices Of staples in that
| town; Flour, 81 per sack; coal, $50 to $50 per
ton; green willow wood, $50 per cord; pota
| toes not to be had at any price.
farmer at RitzvIlle, W. r., sank well re.
Gently, but instead OF striking water he found
an Immense underground cavity from which
stiff breeze continually blows accompanied
with the noise like the hummIng OF telegraph
wires
Russia is enduring with singular fortitude
the energetic goingson Of Bulgaria, the gov.
ernment of which Is so thoroughly hated at
st, Petersburg, The czar is supposed TO be In
a state Of rage at the shooting of the rebels,
but he has done nothing.
AS result Of the recent decision In Wash.
ington territory, denying the right of women
TO vote, Judge Hoyt at Tacoma, set aside all
the Chinese conspiracy cases and all the In
ilctments In that court which were found by
lgrand jury partly composed OF women.
In many parts OF France heavy machinery
is run by arteslan-well power The deeper the
well the greater the pressure A well at
Grenelle has pressure of sixty pounds to the
square inch, and the water is so hot that 1t Is
used for heating the hospitals In the vicinity.
The entire population of rorman, In Sargent
county, Dakota territory, turned out one
morning last week to enjoy the most beauti-
ful mlrages ever visible there. All the towns
within twenty miles could be distinguished
quite distinctly, and some at q greater dis
lance could be recognized.
The devastation OF the grain fields of Ala
media county, California, by wild ducks and
geese at night set the farmers wits at work TO
keep them away The best device so far Is to
burn candles here and there over the fields.
They are protected from the wind by sacks,
and have thus far proved efilcacious.
The Blbilotbeque Rationale, at Paris. Is the
largest library In the world. The directors
have never prepared catalogue of the books
Il contains. The earliest nucleus of library
in France was made by the emperor Charlie
magne, and some OF his manuscripts are still
preserved In the present collection.
There 10 man In the Yale class of 'ss whose
great uncle is one Of the two Oldest living
graduates Of Yale, whose father was gradu-
ate Of 81, who has three uncles, four cousins,
and three brothers among the alumni and
who has several brothers and cousins piepar-
Ing for college. HIS name is not announced.
They have something like the Iettre de eac.ei
In Quebec. When young man becomes OBJ
slreperous in riotous living and will not listen
10 reason, his kinfolk hold a consel de fapsiile,
or family council, and 'interdlct" him. He
goes to an inebriate asylum and does not
emerge until the family deem that he has
learned reason.
woman made wager with her husband
in Nashville, Tenn, that she could drink
quart Of milk day for thirty days, In Febru-
ary The husband offered to give her new
silk dress II she could; II she failed, he was to
receive new suit OF clothes. The guileless
and unsuspecting woman finished her six
teenth quart of milk tafter heroic struggle
with her rebellous stomach) before she dis
covered that February had but twenty eight
days
cruel joke was perpetrated upon two
Ciearfcld harristers on ST. Valentines day.
While in the midst Of an exciting trial a cou
pie OF telegraph messengers rushed In giving
each lawyer Western Union envelope. The
case was stopped to give them time to read
The telegrams, and naturally the attention OF
the whole court was attracted in their dlrec-
ton When they unfolded their respective
missves both were startled by a highlY-color-
ed comic valentine representing shyster
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